Prefiguring postblackness: cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s
"Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American Freedom Struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays produced between 1959 and 1969 during the Freedom Struggle era. Carol Bunch Davis shows how these plays' r...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American Freedom Struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays produced between 1959 and 1969 during the Freedom Struggle era. Carol Bunch Davis shows how these plays' representations complicate reductive iterations of blackness, which often limit the Freedom Struggle era to Martin Luther King's nonviolent protest and cast Malcolm X's black nationalism as undermining civil rights movement's advances. These five plays strategically revise the rhetoric, representations, ideologies, and iconography of the African American Freedom Struggle, subverting its dominant narrative. This revision critiques racial uplift ideology's tenets of civic and moral virtue as a condition of African American full citizenship, as well as reimagines the Black Arts movement's restrictive notions of black authenticity as a condition of racial identity. These staged representations construct a counter-narrative to cultural memory of the Freedom Struggle in the very midst of that era. In their use of a "postblack ethos" to enact African American subjectivity, the plays envision black identity beyond the quest for freedom, anticipating what blackness might look like when it moves beyond the struggle for collective freedom. The plays range from the canonical (Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman) to celebrated, yet understudied works (Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness; Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope; Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody). Finally, Davis discusses recent revivals, showing how these 1960s plays shape dimensions of modern drama well beyond the decade of their creation".. |
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Autor: Bunch Davis, Carol
Jahr: 2015
PREFIGURING POSTBLACKNESS Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s Carol,Bunch Davis University Press of Mississippi Jackson
CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction The Postblack Ethos in “Texts Out of Time”: Rosa Parks and the African American Freedom Struggle in Cultural Memory 3 Chapter One “One for Whom Bread—Food—Is Not Enough”: Beneatha Younger, Uplift Ideology, and Intellectual Freedom 22 Chapter Two “A Ghost of the Future”: Racial (Mis)perception and Black Subjectivity in LeRoi Jones’s Dutchman 57 Chapter Three “Ghost(s) in the House!”: Black Subjectivity and Howard Sackler’s The Great White Hope 81 Chapter Four Gathering Black Subjectivities and Cultural Memory in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness 104 Chapter Five Prefiguring Postblackness in Charles Gordone’s A Jo Place to Be Somebody: A Black Black Comedy in Three Acts 129 Coda Postblackness’s Ancestors and Relatives or “The Past Pushing Us into the Present” 156 vu
viii Contents Notes l 6 l Bibliography 190 Index 200
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| spelling | Bunch Davis, Carol Verfasser (DE-588)1095504541 aut Prefiguring postblackness cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s Carol Bunch Davis Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2015 x, 210 Seiten Illustrationen txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index "Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American Freedom Struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays produced between 1959 and 1969 during the Freedom Struggle era. Carol Bunch Davis shows how these plays' representations complicate reductive iterations of blackness, which often limit the Freedom Struggle era to Martin Luther King's nonviolent protest and cast Malcolm X's black nationalism as undermining civil rights movement's advances. These five plays strategically revise the rhetoric, representations, ideologies, and iconography of the African American Freedom Struggle, subverting its dominant narrative. This revision critiques racial uplift ideology's tenets of civic and moral virtue as a condition of African American full citizenship, as well as reimagines the Black Arts movement's restrictive notions of black authenticity as a condition of racial identity. These staged representations construct a counter-narrative to cultural memory of the Freedom Struggle in the very midst of that era. In their use of a "postblack ethos" to enact African American subjectivity, the plays envision black identity beyond the quest for freedom, anticipating what blackness might look like when it moves beyond the struggle for collective freedom. The plays range from the canonical (Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman) to celebrated, yet understudied works (Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness; Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope; Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody). Finally, Davis discusses recent revivals, showing how these 1960s plays shape dimensions of modern drama well beyond the decade of their creation".. Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1960-1970 gnd rswk-swf HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama bisacsh Schwarze. USA American drama African American authors History and criticism American drama 20th century History and criticism African Americans Race identity African Americans in literature African American theater HISTORY / United States / 20th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama Kollektives Gedächtnis (DE-588)4200793-8 gnd rswk-swf Theater (DE-588)4059702-7 gnd rswk-swf Bürgerrechtsbewegung (DE-588)4146878-8 gnd rswk-swf Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 gnd rswk-swf Drama (DE-588)4012899-4 gnd rswk-swf Ethnische Identität (DE-588)4153096-2 gnd rswk-swf USA USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 s Drama (DE-588)4012899-4 s Ethnische Identität (DE-588)4153096-2 s Geschichte 1960-1970 z DE-604 Theater (DE-588)4059702-7 s Kollektives Gedächtnis (DE-588)4200793-8 s Bürgerrechtsbewegung (DE-588)4146878-8 s http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1343/3049191/image/lgcover.9781496802989.jpg Cover image HBZ Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028659744&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | Prefiguring postblackness cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s |
| title_auth | Prefiguring postblackness cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s |
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| title_full | Prefiguring postblackness cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s Carol Bunch Davis |
| title_fullStr | Prefiguring postblackness cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s Carol Bunch Davis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prefiguring postblackness cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s Carol Bunch Davis |
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